To think about an artificial limb is to think about a person. It's an object of touch and motion made to be used, one that attaches to the body and interacts with its user's world. Historical ...

As amazing as the human body is, it’s unfortunately not as amazing as e.g. axolotl bodies are, in the sense that they can regrow entire limbs and more. This has left us humans with the necessity to ...

A team of four Miami University undergraduate students is working to develop an affordable 3D-printed prosthetic hand that costs less than $100 and can be produced in 36 hours, addressing a shortage ...

Around ten years ago, fantastic media coverage of 3D printing dramatically increased expectations for the technology. A particular darling of that coverage was the use of 3D-printing for prosthetic ...

When Peregrine Hawthorn breaks a finger, all he has to do is improve on the design and print a new one. The 19-year-old from Seattle was born without fingers on his left hand, but in 2013 he learned ...

A class of young engineers in Warsaw has not only joined a global movement of helpful technology, but they've also built a prosthetic hand for their classmate in the process. This group of young ...

HENDERSONVILLE, Ten. (WKRC/WTVF/CBS Newspath) -After a month of hard work, a team of high school engineering students in Tennessee built a fellow student at their school a robotic prosthetic hand. In ...

Three-dimensional printing is transforming medical care, letting the health care field shift from mass-produced solutions to customized treatments tailored to each patient’s needs. For instance, ...